First Edition thus. One of 78 copies printed on Japon ancien paper, signed in red pencil on the colophon by Iliazd and with the original etching signed by Picasso. The dry-point etching was printed by Atelier Lacourière Frélaut. "In the summer of 1971, Iliazd decided to reprint the article he convinced his friend Picasso to create this frontispiece of the Georgian painter [Niko Pirosmanachvili]. The printing was completed and signed by December 1972, four months before Picasso's death" (Johnson, p. 165).

Cramer/Goeppert, Pablo Picasso: The Illustrated Books, No. 154

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First Edition thus. One of 78 copies printed on Japon ancien paper, signed in red pencil on the colophon by Iliazd and with the original etching signed by Picasso. The dry-point etching was printed by Atelier Lacourière Frélaut. "In the summer of 1971, Iliazd decided to reprint the article he convinced his friend Picasso to create this frontispiece of the Georgian painter [Niko Pirosmanachvili]. The printing was completed and signed by December 1972, four months before Picasso's death" (Johnson, p. 165).

Cramer/Goeppert, Pablo Picasso: The Illustrated Books, No. 154

Not available for purchase online, please contact the Shop to arrange for purchase.